Did you participate in #firstdayfirstimage? Would you be willing to share your experience for an upcoming article in Exposure Magazine? If so, send me an email at: exposure@spenational.org letting me know the following:
--how you introduced the image and/or the #firstdayfirstimage project (and whether you chose not to do the latter; this is also interesting and rich fodder for discussion.
--what classes you were teaching and what images you used
--a screenshot from instagram of what you taught for #firstdayfirstimage
--what the class reaction/response/discussion was like
--what your experience with #firstdayfirst image was like
--what would you do differently
--will you be doing this again?
Thank you very much! #crowdsourcingknowledge #photographershelpingphotographers
#firstdayfirstimage asks artist-educators to actively rethink the canons they create for their curricula starting with the first image shown to students on the first day of class. By centering voices long under-examined as the first image discussed in the classroom, including but not limited to female artists, artists of color, LGBTQ artists, and indigenous artists, we accept responsibility to expand the histories we help to create.
By hashtagging and broadcasting our chosen first image(s) as #firstdayfirstimage we create an exchange of ideas on what these new histories might look like.